behoof

[ bih-hoof ]

/ bɪˈhuf /

use; advantage; benefit: The money was spent for his own behoof.

Origin of behoof

before 1000; Middle English behove, Old English behōf profit, need; cognate with Dutch behoef, German Behuf

And this virtue in a Christian man is exercised for the behoof of others, as well as for his own.

The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians |G. G. Findlay
If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this.

The Scarlet Letter |Nathaniel Hawthorne
All this, methinks, is for the behoof of clerks and ministers.

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare |Walter Savage Landor
Thus ‘liberavi animam meam’ for your behoof, as I am rightly bound to do in return for your Goodwill to me.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes |Edward FitzGerald

Leaving only a few light people to keep up the watch-fires and sentry-cries, for behoof of Daun!

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) |Thomas Carlyle

behoof

/ (bɪˈhuːf) /

rare advantage or profit

Old English behōf; related to Middle High German behuof something useful; see behove